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1. Introduction: Epistemic Decolonization During the New Cold WarNaoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, and Peter Button2. Area Studies and Civilizational Transfer: Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax AmericanaNaoki Sakai3. The Third Nomos of the Earth: The Decline of Western Hegemony and the Continuity of CapitalismWalter Mignolo4. Exploring the Landscapes of Extraction. Colonial Continuities, Postcolonial Assemblages of Power, Anticolonial Struggles. Sandro Mezzadra5. The Ambiguous Status of Eastern Europe and the Criminalization of Communism in Europe.Maja Vodopivec6. Feeling Freedom: Japanese and American Wartime Films on the Liberation of the Philippines, 1943 - 45 Takashi Fujitani7. What Comes After 'Area'? The Nomos of the Modern in Times of CrisisGavin Walker8. Theory, Institution, and the North American Field of Modern Chinese Literary Studies: Some Preliminary ReflectionsPeter Button9. Between Studium and Punctum: Tomatsu Shomei and Nakahira Takuma between "Japan" and "Okinawa" Kaori Nakasone and Mayumo Inoue10. Lucian Pye and the Foundations of Area Studies in White Settler ColonialismJon Solomon

Foreword / Cynthia Enloe -- Introduction: Militarized Currents, Decolonizing Futures / Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho -- Militarized Bodies of Memory -- Memorializing Puʻuloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor / Jon Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio -- Bikinis and Other S/pacific N/oceans / Teresia K. Teaiwa -- The Exceptional Life and Death of a Chamorro Soldier: Tracing the Militarization of Desire in Guam, [overstrike] USA / Michael Lujan Bevacqua -- Touring Military Masculinities: U.S.-Philippines Circuits of Sacrifice and Gratitude in Corregidor and Bataan / Vemadetle Vicuna Gonzalez -- II. Militarized Movements -- Rising Up from a Sea of Discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa / Wesley Iwao Ueunten -- South Korean Movements against Militarized Sexual Labor / Katharine H.S. Moon -- Uncomfortable Fatigues: Chamorro Soldiers, Gendered Identities, and the Question of Decolonization in Guam / Keith L. Camacho and Laurel A. Monnig -- Militarized Filipino Masculinity and the Language of Citizenship in San Diego / Theresa Cenidoza Suarez -- Hetero/Homo-sexualized Militaries -- On Romantic Love and Military Violence: Transpacific Imperialism and US.-Japan Complicity / Naoki Sakai -- Masculinity and Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in the Military: Focusing on the Absence of the Issue / Insook Kwon -- Why have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Included Women? The State's "Nonfeminist Reasons" / Fumika Sato -- Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of US. Militarism in South Korea / Patti Duncan -- Conclusion: From American Lake to a People's Pacific in the Twenty-First Century / Walden Bello